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An update about artificial mastication Marie-Agnès Peyron, Alain Woda To cite this version: Marie-Agnès Peyron, Alain Woda. An update about artificial mastication. Current Opinion in Food Science, Elsevier, 2016, 9, pp.21-28. <10.1016/j.cofs.2016.03.006>. <hal-01594489> HAL Id: hal-01594489 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01594489 Submitted on 26 Sep 2017 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Available online at www.sciencedirect.com ScienceDirect An update about artificial mastication 1,2 3,4 Marie-Agne` s Peyron and Alain Woda Developing masticatory apparatus, chewing robots or an for biomechanical studies. Secondly, in very different artificial mouth is an old but ever more important goal in food approaches, simulators can be used to study either food science, nutrition or dental research fields, as reflected by the bolus characteristics or to produce boluses for subsequent number of existing digital or biomechanical systems. Whatever analyses (Figure 1). the objective of the approach, basic knowledge of the physiology of mastication, adaptation and neurophysiological Despite the important understanding gathered in sev- control is absolutely needed before conceiving an apparatus. eral aspects of the masticatory process, simulation of Obviously, the final step in the development of a mastication mastication in the area of food science has, too often, simulator is its validation before performing food or food bolus been over-simplified and reduced to grinding, probably characterization. This validation step is imperative to avoid due to the lack of knowledge of physiology. This biased interpretation and can be performed through in vivo–in review resumes the main physiological key points of vitro comparison of particle size distributions in food boluses masticatory process, and describes the different existing obtained after normal mastication. This kind of validated simulations with biomechanical and modalities of func- machine offers the chance to produce boluses for other related tioning. uses such as nutrient bioaccessibility or digestion studies, for example. Such an apparatus can also be employed to simulate Mastication must be understood before being different dental states or ageing conditions. simulated Through a complex and well-coordinated sensory-mo- Addresses 1 tor and visceral activities, mastication of a solid mouth- National Institute of Agronomic Research, Joint Research Unit 1019 for Human Nutrition, Saint Gene` s Champanelle, France ful results in a bolus made of particles reduced in size, 2 Clermont University, University of Auvergne, Joint Research Unit moistened enough to be cohesive, plastic to avoid 1019 for Human Nutrition, Clermont-Ferrand, France 3 particle aspiration, and to permit passage through the Clermont University, University of Auvergne, CROC EA 4847, throat without discomfort or pain. The sensory-motor Clermont-Ferrand, France 4 CHU Clermont-Ferrand, Odontology Service, Clermont-Ferrand, and visceral program is continually commanded by the France central nervous system. The food properties are sensed as early as the first bite and, through sensory-motor Corresponding author: Peyron, Marie-Agne` s feedback, the masticatory program is adjusted to ([email protected]) the changes in bolus features occurring along the masticatory process. This highly complex and feed- Current Opinion in Food Science 2016, 9:21–28 back-dependent dynamic complicates any attempt to This review comes from a themed issue on Sensory science and reproduce instrumentally mastication. Therefore, ad- consumer perception vanced knowledge about how food structure influences Edited by Susana Fiszman the pattern of oral processing is required. Food is a complex stimulus, but the physical dimensions modu- lating the oral processing are limited to its hardness, its rough rheological dimensions (plasticity, elasticity or http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cofs.2016.03.006 brittle nature for example), and size of the mouthful. 2214-7993/# 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Briefly, an increase in food hardness as well as in mouthful size leads to an increase in the number of masticatory cycles (tooth strokes) and applied muscle forces, whatever the rheological nature of the food. On the other hand, the rheological properties of food seem mostly to impact the kinematics of mandibular move- Introduction ments due to a need to adjust the combination of Two main driving-objectives can be identified while compression and shear stresses [1 ]. Furthermore, frac- simulating mastication: firstly, when the goal is to ture propagation during mastication inside the food improve knowledge, to reproduce the biomechanical matrix strongly depends on its structure [2]. The num- aspects of the masticatory system or to analyze the effect ber of fractures and consequently of food fragments of forces, movements or constraints, for example. It seems mainly to depend on food toughness [3] with generally results in the development and the use of resistant food often favouring fracture propagation, mathematical models alone in an in silico approach or resulting in greater comminution. In parallel, the many associated with mechatronic techniques to develop robots and well-documented individual chewing strategies www.sciencedirect.com Current Opinion in Food Science 2016, 9:21–28 22 Sensory science and consumer perception Figure 1 FOOD controll ed prog ramming parameters deficient programming downg raded masti cation simulator adjustement mastication simulator param eters mastication/ volunteers mastication /in vitro defi cient masti cation /in vitro in vi vo in vitro incorrect in vitro foo d bolus food bolus foodbolus analyses analysis / granulometry analysis / granulometry in vivo in vitro in vitro / deficient mastication compliant ? no yes calib rated mastication simulator validat ed food bolus (gold standard) Various analyses: dat a analysis Various analyses: bolus characterisation bolus characterisation kinetics of formation kinetic sof formation rheology, granulometry rheology, granulometry gold standard saliva action, deficiency saliva action, oral nutrient bioaccessibility oral nutrien t bioaccessibility oral digestion deficiencies oral digest ion gold standard bolus for GI digestion bolus for Gi digestion … … data analysis current opinion in food science Flowchart displaying the key steps in development through sequential in vivo–in vitro actions, and validation stage of a mastication simulator before operating it to produce boluses for multiple purposes. 1) Mastication of solid food ends with a bolus swallow- help to accomplish the mechanical food disruption. The able without risk of mucosal injury and aspiration. For end point of the masticatory sequence is determined by each food, a correct and specific granulometry, the intrinsic properties of the bolus. Thus, swallowing rheology and saliva impregnation characterize a is initiated when the bolus has been perceived by the swallowable bolus. In normal mastication, bolus oral receptors to be ready for safe-swallowing. Thus the particle size distribution is specific to food structure swallowing threshold is a combination of numerous and similar between boluses from different subjects. physical dimensions including particle size, cohesive- 2) If such a bolus cannot be produced, mastication must ness, elasticity, plasticity, moistening, intrinsic action of be considered as impaired. At the individual level, two mucines and enzymes, among other factors. In particu- indicators sign for an impaired mastication: increased lar, particles must be bound together by viscous forces bolus granulometry above a certain threshold level and rendering the bolus sufficiently cohesive [4,5]. This variation in frequency of the strokes while masticating swallowing threshold is specific to each food. a given food compared with normal mastication. 3) In subjects with perfectly healthy mastication, In summary, the basic points to be considered, before increasing either the force or the number of tooth simulation and according to the research strategy, are [1,2,5]: strokes or the combination of compressing versus Current Opinion in Food Science 2016, 9:21–28 www.sciencedirect.com An updating about artificial mastication Peyron and Woda 23 shearing constraints allow adapting to different food establishment of links between food fragmentation and structures or to harder or more difficult food stuffs to initial food structure [13]. chew. 4) Subjects with moderate impairment of the anatomical Several mastication robots or mechatronic devices have or physiological conditions of the masticatory appara- been conceived and designed to study biomechanics of the tus can also succeed in making a viable bolus through a masticatory process. Development of a series of mastica- more demanding adaptation. Again, the adaptation tion robots was carried out for quantitative and dynamic relies on increasing the force, the number of tooth assessment of mechanical stress applied to oral elements strokes or the constraint modes. during